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New Proposal To Raise The Linux Kernel's Default Timer Frequency To 1000Hz

Phoronix - Mon, 02/10/2025 - 19:43
A patch sent out on Sunday by Google engineer Qais Yousef is proposing to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz...

RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low Latency Encoding Support

Phoronix - Mon, 02/10/2025 - 19:31
Adding to the Vulkan Video support for Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is honoring of the low latency encoding options...

Microsoft Continues Enhancing Its Azure Linux 3.0 Distribution With February Update

Phoronix - Mon, 02/10/2025 - 19:07
Microsoft engineers released Azure Linux 3.0.20250206 overnight as the newest monthly update to this in-house Microsoft Linux distribution that is used within their Azure cloud infrastructure and a variety of other purposes at the Redmond company...

Linux 6.14-rc2 Released With Apple Silicon Maintainer Change, Bcachefs Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 02/10/2025 - 05:12
The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.14 is now available for testing as a rather light update for the week...

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